Grafton Ponds Outdoor Center Offers Big Kids Camps for Adults This Summer

May 29, 2012 - PRLog -- Grafton, Vt. -- Grafton Ponds Outdoor Center, a year-round recreation center located in historic Grafton, Vermont, has added a new twist on summer camps this year by offering a Big Kids Camp for adults.

Grafton Ponds is known for its summer week-long day camps for kids age five through 16 years. Now Big Kids Camps will be offered in conjunction with kids summer camps which run from June 25 through August 3.

Big Kids Camps are offered to adults Tuesday through Thursday from 9 am to 4 pm and include mountain biking, swimming, canoe trips, hiking, Biathlon, low ropes course and blacksmithing. They will be led by Grafton Ponds Director Bill Salmon who – a big kid himself – recognizes the need for adults to have fun in the summer, too. He led similar camps in Smugglers Notch, Vermont during his tenure with the popular Vermont resort. The cost for the Grafton Ponds Big Kids Camp is $150 per week and includes daily lunch and rental equipment.

“Every year when we have summer camp, not a day goes by when a parent mentions, ‘I wish I could go to summer camp too,’ so we finally decided to create a program for them,” said Bill Salmon Grafton Ponds Director. “The three-day camps give adults a taste of the fun summer life that kids experience. We’ve already seen a lot of interest for it just by word of mouth.”

Reservations can be made by visiting GraftonPonds.com or calling 802-843-2400. The Grafton Inn is offering special lodging deals on its rental homes for families who have children attending summer camps. Information can be found at GraftonInnVermont.com.

Grafton Ponds Outdoor Center is a year-round 2,000+ acre recreation center located in Grafton, Vermont, offering 30k of Nordic skiing with terrain park, 15k of snowshoeing and a 600-foot tubing run in winter; and mountain biking, bike terrain park, hiking, canoe excursions, swimming and kids camps in summer. A year-round biathlon course is a new program at Grafton Ponds. For more information, visit GraftonPonds.com.